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US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum: Difference between revisions
US History timeline & concept chart: 1789-1860 Early Republic to Antebellum (view source)
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* Tennessee (“western”), 1796 | * Tennessee (“western”), 1796 | ||
=== Northwest | === Northwest Territory and Northwest Ordinance of 1787 === | ||
[[File:Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png|thumb|Northwest-territory-usa-1787|alt=Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png]] | [[File:Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png|thumb|Northwest-territory-usa-1787|alt=Northwest-territory-usa-1787.png]] | ||
* in 1787 the Continental Congress organized land ceded by England north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes into a "territory" | * in 1787 the Continental Congress organized land ceded by England north of the Ohio River to the Great Lakes into a "territory" | ||